PowerShell Job Trends in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 82 85
Rank change year-on-year +49 +3 +7
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 64 10 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 5.44% 1.04% 1.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.04% 2.71% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 22 10 23
10th Percentile £37,000 £52,357 £48,730
25th Percentile £40,719 £60,432 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,750 £82,626 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% +10.17% +31.22%
75th Percentile £88,813 £93,778 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 - £95,779
Scotland median annual salary £71,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +19.17% +9.09% -3.51%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 399 369 572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 33.90% 38.48% 43.50%
Number of salaries quoted 191 257 461
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,231 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.46% -6.15%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Job Locations in Edinburgh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Edinburgh region over the 6 months to 26 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Balerno - 1 - -
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Scotland

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 44 (68.75%) Azure
2 24 (37.50%) dbt
2 24 (37.50%) Snowflake
3 23 (35.94%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (29.69%) Azure Key Vault
5 15 (23.44%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (20.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (17.19%) Entra ID
8 9 (14.06%) GitHub
8 9 (14.06%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (4.69%) AWS
9 3 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.69%) GCP
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (3.13%) Google Workspace
10 2 (3.13%) SaaS
11 1 (1.56%) Boomi
11 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (1.56%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.50%) Telnet
2 3 (4.69%) BGP
2 3 (4.69%) Firewall
2 3 (4.69%) LAN
2 3 (4.69%) MPLS
2 3 (4.69%) WAN
2 3 (4.69%) Wireless
3 2 (3.13%) Broadband
3 2 (3.13%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.56%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.31%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.56%) Power BI
2 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (17.19%) JIRA
2 9 (14.06%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (75.00%) Finance
2 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 8 (12.50%) Front Office
5 2 (3.13%) Games
5 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (34.38%) Senior
2 19 (29.69%) Azure Engineer
3 13 (20.31%) Applications Engineer
4 9 (14.06%) Security Engineer
5 8 (12.50%) Platform Specialist
6 6 (9.38%) 3rd Line Support
7 4 (6.25%) Applications Support
7 4 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Lead
8 3 (4.69%) Network Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Architect
10 1 (1.56%) Applications Manager
10 1 (1.56%) Data Manager
10 1 (1.56%) Developer
10 1 (1.56%) Lead Network Engineer
10 1 (1.56%) Platform Engineer
10 1 (1.56%) Senior Architect
10 1 (1.56%) Senior Developer
10 1 (1.56%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.31%) GraphQL
1 13 (20.31%) OAuth
2 11 (17.19%) OpenAPI
2 11 (17.19%) Swagger
3 8 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
3 8 (12.50%) YAML
4 3 (4.69%) REST
4 3 (4.69%) SAML
4 3 (4.69%) SOAP
5 2 (3.13%) LDAP
5 2 (3.13%) OpenID
6 1 (1.56%) .NET
6 1 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Product Ownership
2 8 (12.50%) Equities
2 8 (12.50%) Fixed Income
3 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.69%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.13%) Cyberattack
5 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.13%) Robotics
5 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.56%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 23 (35.94%) Windows
2 15 (23.44%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.69%) Linux
4 2 (3.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (62.50%) Asset Management
2 38 (59.38%) Coaching
3 32 (50.00%) Agile
3 32 (50.00%) DevOps
4 28 (43.75%) CI/CD
5 25 (39.06%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (35.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (35.94%) Roadmaps
7 22 (34.38%) ITIL
8 20 (31.25%) Mentoring
9 13 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (18.75%) Data Modelling
11 11 (17.19%) OO
11 11 (17.19%) Software Engineering
12 10 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
12 10 (15.63%) Security Testing
12 10 (15.63%) Threat Modelling
13 9 (14.06%) Application Security
13 9 (14.06%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (14.06%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 33 (51.56%) SQL
2 28 (43.75%) Python
3 15 (23.44%) Bash
4 12 (18.75%) C#
5 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (14.06%) CISSP
1 9 (14.06%) CREST Certified
1 9 (14.06%) SANS
2 3 (4.69%) Degree
3 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.13%) CCNA
3 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) CEH
4 1 (1.56%) GIAC
4 1 (1.56%) GREM
4 1 (1.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (28.13%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.69%) GDPR
3 2 (3.13%) NCSC
3 2 (3.13%) NIST
4 1 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (14.06%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (42.19%) Terraform
2 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (7.81%) Ansible
4 3 (4.69%) Grafana
4 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.56%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 1 (1.56%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (1.56%) QRadar
5 1 (1.56%) SCCM
5 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (57.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.50%) Charles River
2 8 (12.50%) Cisco
3 5 (7.81%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.25%) Ab Initio
4 4 (6.25%) IBM
4 4 (6.25%) Splunk
5 3 (4.69%) F5
5 3 (4.69%) Fortinet
5 3 (4.69%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.56%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.56%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.56%) Workday